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A small test POC connecting books using Open Linked Data ==> start adding values... Today we see a lot of initiatives but when we check LIBRIS XL a book it is not linked and in RAÄ a book it is linked to a church in Wikipedia but no good user interface exist and its just a link or one link per object... compare Wikidata Q61765464 for the same book that also links the book to people mentioned in the book....

I see old organisations having problem using new technology as grafdatabases and having an user community with the wrong skill matrix i.e. we get Metadatadebt and the price we pay is data that is not FINDABLE/USABLE...

Are we getting Digital RDF SILOS?

In Sweden cultural people like Digisam has been speaking about Linked data since 2012 but I feel they miss a vision and dont have the right skill matrix. This is a POC what can be done if we move the Riksantikvarieämbetet UGC data to a modern platform with the possibilities to easier connect those books as sources for a grave.... we have the same problem with the National Library project LIBRISXL that also have the books in RDF but as "Strings not things" see picture below were "Riksantikvarieämbetet" is a string and not an object like Wikidata Q631844 i.e. #METADATADEBT...

Example how a book can be connected to people mentioned in the book on a modern platform like Wikidata with > 6800 properties

Book about the Riddarholm church

How its done in Wikidata and the metadatadebt at RAÄ and LIBRISXL

  • Wikidata Phabricator Task T215603 Connect WD Churches and church documentation at RAÄ
  • Video in Swedish describes this linked solution where I extract 200 books from LIBRIS and combines them with RAÄ and Wikidata. A small reaction on this tweet from LIBRIS XL that I feel has no Linked Data vision displayed in what is delivered <-> LIBRISXL tweet "UX-design – att forma en användarupplevelse"
  • Map with the churches that are documented in a RAÄ Book (also links LIBRIS/LIBRIS XL/sv:Wikipedia)

Wikidata search

POC Linked Books - what can be done in a day

Access LIBRIS and search for Svenska Kyrkor and extract items available from RAÄ Samla

  1. Search in LIBRIS is ZSER:(Sveriges kyrkor)

1-1) Check if RAÄ SAMLA has references to Wikipedia/Wikidata using UGC

1-2) export data

  1. Next step use Open Refine to Match items in Wikidata to find Objects for authors etc.. and upload to Wikidata

2-1) Upload to Wikidata --> SAMLA books will be one object with references from the WD church object and same as with the authors of the books

Usage

Python get_libris_svenska_kyrkor.py --> log

Wikidata

  • every book is an object in WD
    • example Wikidata objekt Q61723424 is RAÄ Samla 6880 - see also What links here
    • every book has one or more Main Topic P921 that is the churches they describe or if a grave is described the buried person is linked
  • every church gets a described by P1343 linking back to the book

Wikidata queries

Book about the Riddarholm church

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My Facebook anouncements about the map

Svenskt Kyrkogårdprojekt

Ett försök att få kopplingar våra kyrkogårdar med kyrka, flygbilder, Find A Grave, Släktforskarförbundet se github:salgo60/Gravstensinventeringen-Wikidata

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